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Re:I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Pac... by WalterBright on Sunday May 02, 2021 @11:41PM (#27021381)
They share it with anyone willing to take a risk and buy a share.

Working at a job doesn't automatically give one ownership rights, any more than the mechanic who fixes your car gets a share in the proceeds when you sell it.

Many companies, however, do provide ownership rights to employees in the form of stock purchase plans and stock option plans. I don't know if Amazon provides such to warehouse workers, but I'd suspect it would be good business to do so.

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Re:I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Pac... by varispeed on Monday May 03, 2021 @08:31AM (#27024209)
Payment in salary and real shares (without dilution) is one of the ways that could work. For example if company made 1 billion profit, they could use 30% to buy stock or use their own and redistribute it to employees into their real broker accounts.
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